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City Beautiful is a YouTube channel dedicated to educating everyone about cities and city planning. Cities are amazing! I cover topics such as transportation, land use planning, and urban design. I post new videos regularly. I'm on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/citybeautiful.nebula.tv You can support this channel on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/citybeautiful
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Joined August 8, 2016
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